Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph A. Deguglielmo '29 said that "to ask the police to find the flames is a super-human task." He continued, "we are stamping them as Communists in the mind of the general public through such an investigation and this would insult their patriotism...
Eight months ago, Radical Party Leader Ricardo Balbin was arrested by Peronista police on charges of being "disrespectful" to the President of the Republic. In Peronista eyes, the 46-year-old lawyer had added injury to insult when he dared run for governor of Buenos Aires Province against a Perón-backed candidate. After his arrest, Balbin boldly insisted on a trial, but one embarrassed judge after another managed to get the ticklish case off his docket; meanwhile, Balbin was shunted from jail to jail. Finally, an obscure...
...Loesser has written six tunes, only one of which--"Why Fight the Feeling?"--is memorable. Unfortunately, Miss Hutton sings it. Astaire dances and sings another number, "Jack and the Beanstalk," and his rendition is superb. He is still the artist which he has always been, and it is an insult to him and to Hollywood that no better vehicle could be found...
...just attempt at equalizing the balance of power in the American scene, and will praise its purpose and methods. Your condemning of it is not only indicative of your complete adherence to the party line, and of your lack of originality, but it is also an insult to a great many of your readers...
Dean Alter of the Graduate School of Boston University, whose R.O.T.C. unit did distribute the book, said yesterday that "though the intention of the pamphlet is honorable, the insult to the intelligence of college freshmen is unforgivable...